Whowells Farm Broadhead Road Turton Bolton BL7 0JJ Data via plota.co.uk

10/26/0530 - Discharge of Planning condition Approved

Proposal

Discharge Condition No.3 'landscaping scheme' pursuant to planning application 10/26/0209 Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

8 Jun 2026

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Approved

26 Aug 2026

Approved on 26 Aug 2026 · Last checked 30 Sept 2026

Documents 5

Associated applications 2

Part of

Full29 May 202610/26/0209
Change of use of agricultural land to equestrian use and erection of stables
Conditions details submitted for 3
- ConditionsDischarge Condition No.3 'landscaping scheme'This application8 Jun 202610/26/0530

Site constraints 5

Coal mining development high risk area

Recorded coal mining features at or near the surface. Most planning applications here need a coal mining risk assessment.

From the Mining Remediation Authority, formerly the Coal Authority. The development high risk area marks recorded coal mining features at or near the surface: mine shafts and adits, shallow workings, mine gas and former opencast sites. Most planning applications there need a coal mining risk assessment; householder applications, changes of use and some minor works are exempt. Mine entry positions come from old plans and can be out by several metres, and unrecorded workings can exist anywhere in the coalfield.

Coal mining risk assessments ↗

Agricultural land, grade 5

Very poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; SSSI about 334 m away: West Pennine Moors SSSI.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £585,000 in September 2018. Other property, freehold.

27 September 2018£585,000Recorded as a transfer outside a standard sale

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Council: Blackburn
Application type: Discharge of Planning condition
Postcode: BL7 0JJ
Received: 8 Jun 2026
Validated: 8 Jun 2026
Ward: West Pennine
Parish: Blackburn
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 3 Aug 2026
Decision: PERMITS
Decision date: 26 Aug 2026
Applicant: Show

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry: 3 Aug 2026

Historical activity at this location

6 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Approved

Discharge Condition No 5 "landscaping scheme" pursuant to planning application 10/24/1022

10/25/0981 12 Nov 2025

2025 Approved

Discharge Condition Nos 3 "retaining structures scheme", 6 "construction method statement…

10/25/0606 6 Aug 2025

2024 Approved

Proposed erection of outbuilding

10/24/0541 31 Jul 2024

2024 Withdrawn

Demolition of existing barn with Class Q approval and construction of new dwelling with s…

10/24/0088 30 Jan 2024

2023 Approved

Change of use from agricultural land to residential garden (Use Class C3) and external al…

10/23/0696 31 Oct 2023

2022 Approved

Change of use of 2 No. barns to 2 No. dwellings (C3) with associated building works

10/22/0140 6 Apr 2022

Blackburn

Planning Authority Score

7.2/10

Good

#55 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Blackburn is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #90 out of 296. Householder applications are more likely to be approved here than most councils, with a 98% approval rate vs 90% nationally.

More permissive than most councils

98% approved vs 90% nationally

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Blackburn decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

96%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #7 of 296

98%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #10 of 296

73%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #90 of 296

40%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #147 of 296

88%

Minor dwellings approved

40 decided (1-9 homes)

100%

Major dwellings approved

7 decided (10+ homes)

86%

Change of use approved

56 decided

519

Total decisions

23 refused in the year to March 2026